It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

Hello! Welcome to It’s Monday What Are You Reading? The meme that we use to share what we read this past week and what our plans are for the upcoming week. It’s a great way to see what others are reading and add to your own To Be Read list. 😀 You never know where that next great read may come from!

Honestly, I did not put in a lot of reading time this week although I really thought this weekend I was going to rock it. Instead I spent the weekend running errands, going to a movie, and today I spent the entire day building a non profit website for a bike ride event coming up in July.

This week is another fairly quiet one. I have a few meetings and projects but if I can complete this website and get the registration links up I should be good to go. Here is what I have planned for this week:

For My Ears

When Jane Forrester takes a position as Grace County’s newest social worker, she doesn’t realize just how much her help is needed. She quickly becomes emotionally invested in her clients’ lives, causing tension with her boss and her new husband. But as Jane is drawn in by the Hart women, she begins to discover the secrets of the small farm – secrets much darker than she would have guessed.

Soon, she must decide whether to take drastic action to help them, or risk losing the battle against everything she believes is wrong. Set in rural Grace County, North Carolina in a time of state mandated sterilizations and racial tension, Necessary Lies tells the story of these two young women, seemingly worlds apart, but both haunted by tragedy. Jane and Ivy are thrown together and must ask themselves: How can you know what you believe is right, when everyone is telling you it’s wrong?

Violet Markey is on the ledge of her school’s bell tower, six stories up, and frozen in terror. Theodore Finch, the Freak, stands on the ledge nearby. Before she can panic, he calms her down and gets her back on solid ground. He even lets everyone think she’s the one who talked him out of jumping. Violet, until recently, was a popular cheerleader and Finch has a well-earned reputation for being manic, violent, and unpredictable. But Finch won’t let their encounter rest. He’s suddenly everywhere Violet goes and even signs her up as his partner on a “Wander the State” school project. As the two drive around Indiana, Violet begins to see the lame tourist attractions through Finch’s eyes, and each spot becomes something unique and special. He pushes and challenges the protagonist, and seems to understand the effect her sister’s death made on her. But though Violet begins to recover from the devastating grief that has cocooned her for almost a year, Finch’s demons refuse to let go.

I am not going to add any books to the mix, I have not finished what I said I would last week.

SO what are you reading this week? What did you finish last week? Share your Its Monday What Are You Reading where it says click here:

I didn’t do much reading last week due to half term. Also, recent books weren’t as inspiring as I hoped. Looking forward to some good ones this week. Your Daine Chamberlain choice is one for the to read list. Emma

I want to read both of your books for this week. I grew up in NC and love books that take me home again–even if they explore some of the darker parts of the state’s history. I now live in IN and have been seeing All the Bright Places turn up all kinds of places with good reviews.

[Tried to post this last night but git scolded for being up “so late”]… I did manage to read and review a cosy or two, as well as Ruth’s Journey, the biook about Mammy from Gone with the Wind. A lot of reviews complain about how “wordy” McCraig is….HELLO, have you read any of his other books? I really liked it anyway. And read a short (120pp) book about antebellum Mobile called Seven Sisters, which got trashed because its the first part of a serial novel. Its kindo of like trashing a writer after the first page and never reading any farther….( site begins with an (cough) A)

Thisweek I have Alice Hoffman’s Dovekeepers. After hearing that Cote dePalma from NCIS is starring in the mini-series, I used my GC and got it. And, I stil, have to read Magic for Beginners and my spouse who is on her way up for a “group interview” to get into grad school (in MINUS 17° wind chill), has asked me to review a text for her on Mindfullness and Depression….a very good mix for the week